What are your students' goals? - good grades - better jobs - self-confidence - scholarships - bigger paychecks
- effective communication skills Use Writing: Step by Step to help your students learn the writing skills needed
to achieve their goals! Writing: Step by Step encourages your students to: - Focus on the act of writing - Learn
the entire writing process - Read and analyze student-authored examples of all stages in the writing process -
Develop skills using current trends, such as computer-based writing - Explore both traditional and nontraditional
elements of writing - Focus on finding precisely the right words for essays - Use up-to-date research techniques
for essay writing - Experience how other students have used brainstorming and invention strategies to create their
own subjects and topics.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
To the Student
To the Teacher
Section 1 - Getting Ready to Write
Chapter 1 - The Process of Writing
Part One: Pre-Writing
Part Two: Writing
Part Three: Post-Writing
Chapter 2 - Close Doesn't Count
Section 2 - The Word
Chapter 3 - Diction
Part One: Idiom
Part Two: Cliche
Part Three: Euphemism
Part Four: Redundancy
Part Five: Wordiness (Verbosity)
Part Six: Denotation and Connotation
Part Seven: Levels of Diction
Part Eight: General Words and Specific Words; Concrete Words and Abstract Words
Part Nine: Usage
Section 3 - The Paragraph
Chapter 4 - The Paragraph
Methods of Paragraph Organization
Methods of Paragraph Development
Section 4 - The Essay
Chapter 5 - The Thesis Statement, the Outline and the Title
Part One: The Thesis Statement
Part Two: The Outline
Part Three: The Title
Chapter 6 - Special Paragraphs
Part One: Introductory Paragraphs
Part Two: Concluding Paragraphs
Part Three: Transitional Paragraphs
Chapter 7 - The Description Paper
Effective Description
The Description of an Object Paper
The Description of a Place Paper
The Description of a Person Paper
The Description of an Event Paper
Chapter 8 - The Narrative Paper
Chapter 9 - The Process Paper
Chapter 10 - The Example Paper
Chapter 11 - The Comparison-Contrast Paper
Chapter 12 - The Classification Paper
Chapter 13 - The Definition Paper
Chapter 14 - The Cause-Effect Paper
Chapter 15 - The Persuasion Paper
Section 5 - Research Documentation
Chapter 16 - The Research Paper
Conducting Research: A Few Basics
Documenting Research: A Few Basics
